Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-28 Thread Daniel
Sebastian Hierl writes: > > Also consider MarcEdit and its capability to generate call numbers: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9bl0b2COo -- once you have call numbers, > use MarcEdit's conditional find and replace to move these from the 050 to > the 952$o. Koha is the only

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-27 Thread Daniel Glendening
Thanks Jesse, That's not what I hoped to hear, but what I expected. In editing the entry, via the "Replace Record via Z39.50," I'm able to retrieve Library of Congress info, and call numbers, but when I save, the call number remains unchanged, still displaying the old number. If I change that

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-24 Thread Sebastian Hierl
Also consider MarcEdit and its capability to generate call numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9bl0b2COo -- once you have call numbers, use MarcEdit's conditional find and replace to move these from the 050 to the 952$o. Koha is the only ILS that is integrated with MarcEdit and you can

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-23 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi Daniel, when creating new items the itemcallnumber system preference can be used to suggest a call number from the bibliographic record that can be changed/overwritten by the library. There is currently no other relationship between the callnumber information in the record and the item that I

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-23 Thread Hernandez, Heather
Hi, Daniel-- Although it's common for others systems to be able to copy LC call number information from a bib record 050 or 090 field for display, even pull or copy from those bib fields into item records, Koha doesn't do that, and the displayed call number is from the item record (stored in a

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-23 Thread Paul A
At 08:46 PM 3/23/2016 +, Daniel Glendening wrote: Thanks Jesse, That's not what I hoped to hear, but what I expected. In editing the entry, via the "Replace Record via Z39.50," I'm able to retrieve Library of Congress info, and call numbers, What "call number" are you looking at? There's

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-23 Thread Daniel Glendening
Thanks Jesse, That's not what I hoped to hear, but what I expected. In editing the entry, via the "Replace Record via Z39.50," I'm able to retrieve Library of Congress info, and call numbers, but when I save, the call number remains unchanged, still displaying the old number. If I change that

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-23 Thread Paul A
At 07:45 PM 3/23/2016 +, Daniel Glendening wrote: Hi, I'm working on a restructuring of a small arts non-profit library. The library currently uses an esoteric, confusing custom catalog numbering system devised by a staff member who is no longer here. We'd like to switch all our records

[Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

2016-03-23 Thread Daniel Glendening
Hi, I'm working on a restructuring of a small arts non-profit library. The library currently uses an esoteric, confusing custom catalog numbering system devised by a staff member who is no longer here. We'd like to switch all our records over to LoC cataloging. We currently are using Koha